Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Widens

In the absence of any sign that the plane was in trouble before it vanished, speculation has ranged widely, including pilot error, plane malfunction, hijacking and terrorism, the last because two passengers were traveling on stolen passports. The terrorism theory weakened after Malaysian authorities determined that one of the two men was an Iranian asylum seeker.

Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said at a news conference Tuesday that the international police agency had identified two Iranian men, Pouri Nour Mohammadi, 18, and Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza, 29. Noble said based on investigations carried out into the men to date, they were "probably not terrorists." The chief of police in Kuala Lumpur said earlier in the day that Mohamadi was apparently trying to fly to Europe as an asylum seeker.

They might finally have a lead, if these satellite images prove accurate. The location is on the flight path, not on the other side of Malaysia like that unidentified radar blip they've been chasing down, so it makes slightly more sense this could be it.

Alex daOriginal:did anyone from the plane call anyone or text or anything?

Not that's been reported.

There was a report in the Wall Street Journal today citing anonymous sources saying that the engines send automated performance reports back to the engine manufacturer so any problems can be immediately found and that the missing plane kept sending these reports for a couple hours after the plane went missing. Malaysian authorities, Boeing, and Rolls Royce have said the report is wrong.
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Its amazing to me that they can't seem to find any trace of this plane. You'd think there would be something by this point.
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-Dequindre-:If it crashed, wouldn't there be quite a bit of debris floating around? That's the odd part.

Not necessarily, in some instances, it could enter the water intact and sink.

Also it may be hard to find a few chunks of debris when looking through massive spans of ocean/bays/seas that cover a larger area than the entire US.
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-Dequindre-:If it crashed, wouldn't there be quite a bit of debris floating around? That's the odd part.

TypeSH:Not necessarily, in some instances, it could enter the water intact and sink.

Also it may be hard to find a few chunks of debris when looking through massive spans of ocean/bays/seas that cover a larger area than the entire US.

You also got to keep in mind you got ocean currents that can easily carried debris from the spot of the crash to another location that can be hundreds of miles from the original location.

As it is now, there are news agencies that are theorizing what could of caused MAL Flight 370 to go down as there was a report that the airplane's transponder was shut down at 1:21 AM, the last time the airplane was tracked by radar, with the Data Reporting System shut down 14 minutes earlier. Some suggested that the airplane was hijacked or sabotaged, while others believed that the airplane may had suffered air decompression and that in the desperation to save the plane may had either crashed or the pilots suffered from hypoxia and may had accidentally turned off the transponder while trying to save the plane.